Always Astonished Pessoa FernandoPaperback
Always Astonished Pessoa FernandoPaperback After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and…
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Always Astonished Pessoa FernandoPaperback
After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos--the several pseudonyms under which he wrote an extraordinary body of poetry. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending, writes Edwin Honig.
Fernando Pessoa is one of the great voices of twentieth-century literature, and these manifestos, letters, journal notes, and critical essays range through aesthetics, lyric poetry, dramatic and visual arts, and the psychology of the artist. In Always Astonished, Pessoa and his several selves debate and discuss one another's work, revealing how Portuguese modernism was shaped. He gives us, too, a singularly heterodox political position in his strange work of fiction, The Anarchist